Snow Camp

 Snow camp

...that's what Stapelton Kearns [ our fearless leader] calls it .
Cool ... or is that COLD?
So Linda Epstein and I packed our long underwear, gloves and super-Pak [arctic level of insulation] boots and painting gear into her Outback and headed for the white mountains.
Great information from Stape about
1.American landscape painters mid 19th century to, well, now
2.How to keep the paint moving on your palette at 0 degrees [...KEEP it MOVING!]
3.Innumerable on-site tips about composition, color, brush stroke, more composition
4.the importance of initial layout, wipe out , re layout ...